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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:04 am    Post subject: Searching Samba Effectively. Your Tips, Tricks & Methods Reply with quote

To all Samba Members in the know. How does one search our forum effectively? When I first joined Samba, I was filling out the search form as completely as I knew how and was obtaining poor results or no matches at all. It was suggested to me that I enter just one or two words to search on (ie. Wiring) then hit the enter key. This produced much better results, however, is it the most effective way to search the Samba. I know that there are many other members who would benefit greatly by any search advice you can provide.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally, I use "AND" a lot in my searches to narrow my results, i.e. "blinker AND relay" that works pretty well for me. If nothing comes up then I broaden my search by taking out one of the search words or opening it up to all categories.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

+1 Google site:thesamba.com then I look through the images.... so remember to post them pictures
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

djkeev wrote:
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agree, Google, you can be as descriptive as you want, just use Advanced search, and site set to TheSamba.com, then you could see some of the thread to see if that is what you want

the actual search function here works great for finding a thread in which you know most of it, but doesn't work as well trying to do problem researching, in my experience
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also have better luck using Google. Im sure I don't do it correctly on the Samba but a simple search of something specific returns hundreds of unrelated posts for me. A good tutorial would help me.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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+1 Google site:thesamba.com then I look through the images.... so remember to post them pictures

Agreed... use the "site" feature of Google.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also:
The Google search is in the upper-right of the site.
There is a little Google search box there.

So you don't have to use site:thesamba.com in a more formal full google search.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:15 pm    Post subject: I Appreciate Your Replies Reply with quote

I copied and pasted each of your replies into a Word document to refer to when searching. Thanks very much to all. There are several other members who were also interested in better searches and were told to look for this thread. I am sure they appreciate the knowledge as I do.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When using the search box attached to a specific thread is there a way to search for a specific person? It seams that a posters name, location or even a word within there signature won't show up. I know I can find all of there posts, but some people have thousands and who wants to look though a hundred pages? Some times I just want to know if they have posted in a thread that might be 10 or more pages. I don't believe google will work for this or is there a way to search within a set of search results?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, you can't do that.

You cannot search a thread for a particular person's responses in that thread.

I can't think of a way to do that with google either, although you could try searching the thread title + their username and see if that works.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im a Samba search die hard.. junkie.
I prefer the way I can narrow it down to specific forums.

Insert keywords, select specific forum, Category All, select title only FIRST
See what turns up..
If nothing... or limited.. then change from title only to title and message..

Works 95% of the time..

Its irritating to see users not even bother to use the great tools to search and just start a new topic because they are simply too lazy or bothered. Confused


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tips, but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. I'll just have to go back to visually looking through every page of a thread for a member.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fish wrote:
Thanks for the tips, but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. I'll just have to go back to visually looking through every page of a thread for a member.


For short threads I open the thread and do a "Find" in my browser for the person's name. Ctrl+F, enter name, hit enter. It will jump to their username on the page that is open, if they have posted on this page.

Obviously this would suck if the thread is super long as you would have to go page by page.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
Im a Samba search die hard.. junkie.
I prefer the way I can narrow it down to specific forums.

Insert keywords, select specific forum, Category All, select title only FIRST
See what turns up..
If nothing... or limited.. then change from title only to title and message..

Works 95% of the time..

Its irritating to see users not even bother to use the great tools to search and just start a new topic because they are simply too lazy or bothered. Confused


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Fish wrote:
Thanks for the tips, but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. I'll just have to go back to visually looking through every page of a thread for a member.


For short threads I open the thread and do a "Find" in my browser for the person's name. Ctrl+F, enter name, hit enter. It will jump to their username on the page that is open, if they have posted on this page.

Obviously this would suck if the thread is super long as you would have to go page by page.

That's a great idea when I'm on a PC, but I have yet to figure out how to do that on my iPad.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fish wrote:
EverettB wrote:
Fish wrote:
Thanks for the tips, but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. I'll just have to go back to visually looking through every page of a thread for a member.


For short threads I open the thread and do a "Find" in my browser for the person's name. Ctrl+F, enter name, hit enter. It will jump to their username on the page that is open, if they have posted on this page.

Obviously this would suck if the thread is super long as you would have to go page by page.

That's a great idea when I'm on a PC, but I have yet to figure out how to do that on my iPad.


Ctrl+F works great on the PC, but only one page at a time. Still much quicker than visually looking.
Now, how do you do that using iPad/iPhone?
Anyone?
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